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(1) This Order may be cited as the District of Warwick (Electoral Changes) Order 2000.
(2) This Order shall come into force—
(a) for the purposes of proceedings preliminary or relating to any election to be held on 1st May 2003, on 10th October 2002;
(b) for all other purposes, on 1st May 2003.
(3) In this Order—
 “district” means the district of Warwick;
 “existing”, in relation to a ward, means the ward as it exists on the date this Order is made; andany reference to the map is a reference to the map prepared by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions marked “Map of the District of Warwick (Electoral Changes) Order 2000”, and deposited in accordance with regulation 27 of the Local Government Changes for England Regulations 1994.
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(1) The existing wards of the district shall be abolished.
(2) The district shall be divided into twenty wards, which shall bear the names set out in column (1) of the Schedule.
(3) The wards shall comprise the areas described in column (2) of the Schedule by reference to parishes or parishes and parish wards or, where no area is so described, the area designated on the map by reference to the name of the ward and demarcated by red lines; and the number of councillors to be elected for each ward shall be the number specified in respect of the ward in column (3) of the Schedule.
(4) Where a boundary is shown on the map as running along a road, railway line, footway, watercourse or similar geographical feature, it shall be treated as running along the centre line of the feature.
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(1) The existing wards of the parish of Kenilworth shall be abolished.
(2) The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names Abbey, Park Hill and St John's; and each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward bearing the same name.
(3) The number of councillors to be elected for the parish ward of Abbey shall be five, and for each of the parish wards of Park Hill and St John’s shall be six.
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(1) The existing wards of the parish of Warwick shall be abolished.
(2) The parish shall be divided into three parish wards which shall bear the names North, South and West; and each parish ward shall comprise the area of the district ward bearing the same name.
(3) The number of councillors to be elected for each parish ward shall be five.
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The District of Warwick (Electoral Arrangements) Order 1979 is hereby revoked.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions
Beverley Hughes
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions
23rd June 2000
SCHEDULE
Article 2


(1) (2) (3)
Name of Ward Area of Ward Number of Councillors
Abbey  3
Bishop’s Tachbrook The parish of Bishop’s Tachbrook 1
Brunswick  3
Budbrooke The parishes of Barford, Budbrooke, Hatton, Norton Lindsey, Sherbourne and Wasperton 2
Clarendon  2
Crown  2
Cubbington The parishes of Blackdown, Bubbenhall, Cubbington, Eathorpe, Old Milverton, Wappenbury and Weston under Wetherley 2
Lapworth The parishes of Baddesley Clinton, Bushwood, Lapworth and Rowington 1
Leek Wootton The parishes of Beausale, Haseley, Honiley, Leek Wootton & Guy’s Cliffe, Shrewley and Wroxhall 1
Manor  3
Milverton  3
Park Hill  3
Radford Semele The parishes of Hunningham, Offchurch and Radford Semele 1
St John's  3
Stoneleigh The parishes of Ashow and Baginton, and the Stoneleigh parish ward of Stoneleigh parish 1
Warwick North  3
Warwick South  3
Warwick West  3
Whitnash The parish of Whitnash 3
Willes  3